Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Sista Mkatoliki ajiua chumbani kwa sumu

The Roman Catholic nun, Sister Gertrude Sunduza based at Don Bosco in
Masvingo who was found dead in her room two weeks; killed herself by
drinking large quantities of rat poison and then piercing a sharp object
through her heart, the postmortem carried out in Bulawayo is said to
have established.

Police spokesperson for Masvingo, Charity Mazula confirmed the
postmortem results. The postmortem established that Sister Sunduza who
was head of the Church's Shingirirai College in Mucheke, was found to
have taken large quantities of pesticide used for killing rats and then
used a sharp object to pierce her heart.

She was buried at Driefontein
Mission last week.
Her suicidal tendencies were noticed in the period just prior to her
death and her brother is said to have taken her away to Bulawayo to try
and get her out of the depression.

However, she then committed suicide
barely a week after her return from Bulawayo when she was found lying on
the floor of her room with part of her bed gutted by fire.
Catholics who spoke in interviews expressed concern at the sometimes
sour relationship in the church that lead into priests and nuns
sometimes abandoning their vows in desperation or committing suicide.
This is the second time in as many years that there has been a suicide in the Masvingo Diocese.
One parishioner said April now seems to be a black month for the
Catholics after Fr Agrippa Semende threw himself under a heavy truck
near Gokomere Mission on April 21 2013 while Sr Sunduza decided to take
her life in a most bizarre way on April 26 2014.
The spokesperson for Masvingo Diocese Vicar General Walter Nyatsanza
had promised to come back with a comment but had not done so up to the
time of going to Press.